OUR ELECTRIFYING EXPERIENCE

Angus M Robinson from Sydney’s Leafy Suburbia

Saul Griffith’s recent appearance on the ABC TV program, Australian Story has prompted me to reflect on our own experience, 14 years after moving into our current home, during a time that the challenges faced by climate change has been a prompt for all home-owners to consider how we can all reduce our environmental footprint and carbon emissions.

* A 30% INCREASE IN THE INSTALLATION OF ROOFTOP SOLAR HOT WATER SYSTEMS IN MAY 2023!

* 15,364 WERE REGISTERED : 48% INCREASE ON THE MONTHLY AVERAGE OF PREVIOUS 12 MONTHS!

* NSW - 7,200 REGISTERED: 268% INCREASE FROM PREVIOUS 12 MONTH AVERAGE: In 2022 only 385!

* Reasons:  Incentives by NSW government: significant increases in energy prices - especially gas!

* ACT GOVERNMENT HAS PASSED AUSTRALIA'S FIRST LAW PROHIBITING THE USE OF FOSSIL GAS IN HOMES BUSINESSES!

*The Law 'Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Reduction (Natural Gas Transition) Amendment Bill' passed on Thursday 8th June,2023 establishes the legal framework to end NEW gas connections before 2045 in the ACT.

* REGULATION IS EXPECTED TO BE IN PLACE BY THE END OF 2023 PROHIBITING NEW GAS CONNECTIONS IN RESIDENCES AND COMMERCIAL AREAS IN ANY NEW SUBURB OR INFILL DEVELOPMENTS. 

Electrifying the Australian Backyard

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Angus M Robinson

Managing Director, Leisure Solutions Pty Ltd

February 16, 2020

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Angus M Robinson

Managing Director, Leisure Solutions Pty Ltd

* BATTERY ELECTRIC BUS TAKEOVER! Battery electric bus numbers have overtaken diesel buses in Europe for the first time - the first time a zero-emission technology has been dominant for a road transport sector in Europe!

* TESLA Y AS WORLD'S BEST-SELLING CAR! Tesla Model Y has outsold Toyota Corolla with internal combustion engine vehicle and becomes the world's best selling car in 2023! Highly significant and challenges Toyota's dominance with hybrids!

* YOU'RE PAYING NEAR $2.00/LITRE FOR PETROL?  Well, know that only about 30 cents of that is powering your car! The rest is goiong up in smoke! - ONLY ABOUT 15% OF THAT IS ACTUALLY POWERING YOUR CAR!       

* THAT'S RIGHT!     '85% of the petrol you put into your car is wasted as heat' [THE CONVERSATION'  12/5/23]

* That means 85% OF YOUR PETROL GOES INTO THE AIR AS EMISSIONS!

* ELECTRIC CARS DON'T HAVE ANY EMISSIONS!

* LACK OF INFORMATION MAYBE THE MAIN CAUSE OF RESIDENTS OF BRADFIELD NOT TAKING POSITIVE ACTION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE - 'WHAT SHOULD I DO?'  HOW DO I DO IT?' 

*Survey research by Ku-ring-gai Council 'Net Zero' Team found that one of the main barriers reported by respondents for NOT taking positive action against climate change is because of a lack of information!

* This is supported by reponses to Electrifying Bradfield's own social survey.

* Two 'problems' with solar panels and reasons for 'why I'm not installing them' that are said to me constantly are that 'manufacturing solar panels uses a lot of [fossil-fuel) energy' and 'they can't be recycled - we're going to have our rubbish dumps filled with old solar panels'!

 WRONG! JUST ANOTHER TWO MYTHS THAT NEED TO BE CHALLENGED AND CORRECTED!

* In latest developments researchers at Macquarie University, Sydney have made two significant discoveries in the manufacture and recycling of solar panels! 

* Some of the biggest energy providers in Australia are our very worst emissions polluters!

* Recent study by CHOICE shows several of our biggest electricity providers are also the biggest polluters!

*You may well be surprised - even those purported to be offering 'green energy' - for a price! 

Check it out on the CHOICE website - you can easily get a one-off entry! - or you can join!

* Check to see if you are being supplied by one of the big polluters - then get advice about how easy it is to change!